\Weird Al\" Yankovic" Parodies What was he known for? Yankovic is well known for creating parodies of contemporary radio hits, typically which make up about half of his studio releases. Name one of his parodies Yankovic's parody of Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing",
What other parodies did he do
Besides Dire Straits's Money for Nothing, what other parodies did Weird Al Yankovic do?
Yankovic is well known for creating parodies of contemporary radio hits, typically which make up about half of his studio releases. Unlike other parody artists such as Allan Sherman, Yankovic and his band strive to keep the backing music in his parodies the same as the original, transcribing the original song by ear and re-recording the song for the parody. In some cases, in requesting the original band to allow for his parody, the band will offer to help out with the recreation: Dire Straits members Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher perform on "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*", Yankovic's parody of Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing", while Imagine Dragons provided Yankovic with advice on how to recreate some of the electronic sounds they used for "Radioactive" in Yankovic's parody "Inactive". Yankovic's career in novelty and comedy music has outlasted many of his "mainstream" parody targets, such as Toni Basil, MC Hammer, and Men Without Hats. Yankovic's continued success (including the top 10 single "White & Nerdy" and album Straight Outta Lynwood in 2006) has enabled him to escape the one-hit wonder stigma often associated with novelty music.  Although many of Yankovic's songs are parodies of contemporary radio hits, it is rare that the song's primary topic lampoons the original artist as a person, or the song itself. Most Yankovic songs consist of the original song's music, with a separate, unrelated set of amusing lyrics. Yankovic's humor normally lies more in creating unexpected incongruity between an artist's image and the topic of the song, contrasting the style of the song with its content (such as the songs "Amish Paradise", "White & Nerdy", and "You're Pitiful"), or in pointing out trends or works which have become pop culture cliches (such as "eBay" and "Don't Download This Song"). Yankovic's parodies are often satirical of popular culture, including television (see The TV Album), movies ("The Saga Begins"), and food (see The Food Album). Yankovic claims he has no intention of writing "serious" music. In his reasoning, "There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline."  Yankovic considered that his first true satirical song was "Smells Like Nirvana", which references unintelligible lyrics in Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Other satirical songs include "Achy Breaky Song", which refers to the song "Achy Breaky Heart", "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long", which refers to the repetitious lyrics in "Got My Mind Set on You", and "Perform This Way", set to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" that drew inspiration from Lady Gaga's outlandish but confident attitude.  Yankovic is the sole writer for all his songs and, for "legal and personal reasons", does not accept parody submissions or ideas from fans. There exists, however, one exception to this rule: Madonna was reportedly talking with a friend and happened to wonder aloud when Yankovic was going to turn her "Like a Virgin" into "Like a Surgeon". Madonna's friend was a mutual friend of Yankovic's manager, Jay Levey, and eventually Yankovic himself heard the story from Levey. CANNOTANSWER
Yankovic considered that his first true satirical song was "Smells Like Nirvana",
H3 – Halloween Horror Hostel is a German horror-parody, part of the TV series . The film was directed by Michael Karen and written by Stefan Barth.

Plot 
During a cooking show, Tim Mälzer got repeated phone calls from a mysterious person, who asks for popcorn. After several calls Mälzer responds to the person, that threatened him to kill him, like he did it with the camera man. Mälzer looked for the camera man, but he had disappeared. Then the microwave rings and Mälzer opened it and find the camera man's head inside. After that a Jigsaw puppet appeared driving a small red car and asked again enraged for the popcorn.

In the same time the four friends Nico, Janine, Acki and Martin driving through a forest.

Cast 
Alfonso Losa as Nico
Jennifer Ulrich as Janin
Axel Stein as Acki
Hendrik von Bültzingslöwen as Martin
Christian Tramitz as Harry
Mike Krüger as Michael Meier
Ivonne Schönherr as Ficky
Anni Wendler as Paris
Mirjam Weichselbraun as Sidney
Holger C. Gotha as Vater von Sidney
Santiago Ziesmer as Jigsaw (voice)

Parodies 
The movie contains many references and parodies of many known horror-thriller movies:
Halloween - The main theme can be heard, when the four friends walking through the forest.
Friday the 13th
Hostel
Dead End
Saw - The Jigsaw puppet.
The Ring
Ju-on
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Scream
28 Weeks Later
House of Wax -  Letter animation at the beginning
The Evil Dead - Camera drives
Dawn of the Dead
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Freddy vs. Jason
From Dusk till Dawn
Donnie Darko - The smoking lookalike Donnie Darko rabbit scene
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Jigsaw puppet flies with his red car in front of shining moon.
Harry Potter
Michael Jackson's Thriller - The dance routine of the zombies, with the music

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German television films
German-language films
German-language television shows
2000s parody films
2008 horror films
2000s comedy horror films
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2008 comedy films Krasnaya Plesen (, literally, red mold), is a Russian punk rock group based in Yalta, active from 1989 to this day and having released 55 full albums. The name of the band is a mockery on the term Krasnaya Presnya ( - Red Presnya). Presnya is a name of a neighbourhood in Moscow that saw uprisings during the Russian Revolution of 1905, and during the Soviet era was a popular name for factories and other organizations.

The group is known for its parodies of popular musical artists, especially from Russia, such as Ruki Vverh!, and the profane and racist language used in many of its songs.

Frequent characters in the group's songs include Russian political figures such as Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as made-up characters like Cheburator (a portmanteau of Cheburashka and Terminator), the rural metalhead Balalaykin and Corporal Srul'.

The group's members as of 2010 are Pavel Yatsyna (founder), Sergey "Sid" Mikhaylov, Nika Morozova and Pavel Petrov.

Discography
1991 – Album number 1 (remastered and re-release on CD in 2009 called "Red Scum")
1992 – A snivel in the left ear (and remastered reissue on CD in 2007)
1993 – Hit in the balls (Partial remastering and reissue on CD in 2007)
1993 – Metalhead Balalaykin (Remastered and re-release on CD in 2000)
1994 – New Year's Eve (Remastered and re-release on CD in 2006)
1994 – Vampire Kasholkin (Remastered and re-release on CD in 2005)
1994 – Ballads. Part 1 (re-released in 1996 titled "Ballads and Lyrics")
1994 – Sadistic couplets (reissued in 1996 with the title "A little boy and the other pioneering couplets, and the remastered edition on CD in 2004)
1994 – Ninth delirium (Remastered and re-release on CD in 2005)
1995 – Kabzdets to Chinese planes (Remastered and re-release on CD in 2006 and 2009 titled "Our locomotive, or the Chynese don't fly")
1995 – Sleeping Beauty - part 1
1997 – Sleeping Beauty - part 2
1997 – THE BEST, mother fucka!
1997 – Professor Bibizinsky and size of Chinese sneakers
1998 – Cinderella
1998 – Battle of Kulikovo
1998 – Bulbets to "Titanic"
1998 – Red Flower
1999 – Phone Sex
1999 – UNION of popular parodies 717
1999 – The Tale of Tsar Saltan - 1
2000 – UNION of popular parodies 828
2000 – Eternal kaif
2000 – UNION of popular parodies 1000
2001 – The Adventures of Little Red Riding Hood
2001 – UNION of popular parodies 3003
2001 – Spanner for the cruiser "Aurora"
2001 – UNION of popular parodies 2002
2002 – The Tale of Tsar Saltan - 2
2002 – UNION of popular parodies 6006
2002 – ... you all
2002 – UNION of popular parodies 4004
2003 – Suck, pops!
2003 – UNION of popular parodies 7007
2003 – From the margins to the Kremlin
2004 – UNION of popular parodies 8800
2004 – Fly-Ssykatuha
2004 – Bulbulator
2004 – UNION of popular parodies 9900
2004 – With Symphony Orchestra
2005 – UNION of popular parodies XXX - Cold Twenty
2005 – UNION of popular parodies 1.000.000
2005 – UNION of popular parodies 5.000.000
2006 – Trilogy of Russian punk rock
2006 – UNION of popular parodies 16,000,000
2006 – 46th album
2007 – UNION of popular parodies of "Fried thirty"
2007 – Disco of the Corporal Srul
2007 – Ballads. Part 2
2008 – ZheZZZt
2008 – Kerosene
2009 – Default
2010 – Demotivators (not yet published)
2010 – Ballads (BEST)
2010 – UNION of popular parodies in 2010 (55 anniversary album)
2012 – 21.12.12

External links

Official website 

Russian punk rock groups
Soviet punk rock groups The 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, has been parodied on Saturday Night Live (SNL) since 1992. Clinton was in office from 1993 to 2001, and has been portrayed on the show over a hundred times, most often by Darrell Hammond.

Background
Saturday Night Live has parodied U.S. presidents and other politicians since the show started in 1975. The numerous sketches on Clinton are often inspired by aspects of his presidency, the Lewinsky scandal, and his relationship with his wife, herself a frequent subject in SNL's political sketches.

Phil Hartman (1992–1994)

Phil Hartman was the first cast member to portray Bill Clinton and did so until he left the show in 1994. Among his 18 appearances as Clinton, a December 1992 sketch, in which Clinton enters a McDonald's and eats customers' food while talking about politics, has been noted as a successful one.

Darrell Hammond (1995–2019)
Darrell Hammond took over the role during his SNL tenure from 1995 to 2009. Like Hartman, Hammond has been considered one of SNL'''s best political impersonators, and on the show he parodied several other American politicians. SNL's ratings rose at the peak of the Lewinsky-scandal, and when Monica Lewinsky guested the show in 1999, she appeared with Hammond's Clinton. In the sketch, Clinton dreams of the life after his presidency, and Lewinsky is his wife.

In 1997, he appeared as Clinton at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner. According to Hammond, he met Clinton at the White House before the event "in full Clinton drag". Telling Clinton that he felt foolish, the president replied "I think you look terrific''." He also did an impression of Clinton as part of a 2001 White House Correspondents' Association dinner performance, after Clinton left office.

Hammond has returned as Clinton several times since he left the cast, and has played the part on the show over 90 times.

Others
A 1994 sketch had several cast members auditioning to play Clinton, including Chris Farley, David Spade, Chris Elliott, Adam Sandler, and Tim Meadows. Michael McKean briefly played Clinton after Hartman, at the end of 1994. Dana Carvey once appeared as a "young Clinton" in a 1996 sketch where Bob Dole (Norm Macdonald) uses a time-machine. Beck Bennett played Clinton once, in 2013.

See also
 Saturday Night Live parodies of Joe Biden
 Saturday Night Live parodies of George H. W. Bush
 Saturday Night Live parodies of Hillary Clinton
 Saturday Night Live parodies of Sarah Palin
 Saturday Night Live parodies of Donald Trump

References

Cultural depictions of Bill Clinton
Cultural depictions of presidents of the United States
Cultural depictions of Monica Lewinsky
Saturday Night Live sketches
Saturday Night Live in the 1990s
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s
Saturday Night Live in the 2010s
American political satire